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Breaking act: Player Piano

An Indiana-born, London-based multi-instrumentalist, Jeremy Radway is signed to the Fife label Fence and is currently touring with King Creosote. In most instances, a debut release's appeal is down to a certain tentativeness and innocence - great potential, as yet only partly fulfilled. In Player Piano's case, however, it is the completeness, the fully realised grandeur of Radway's first EP, Into the Dark, that so impresses. Evoking solo-Lennon string arrangements, the unfettered creativity of early Bowie and the Walker Brothers, and the vocal plangency of Chris Martin and Rufus Wainwright, it tugs at the heartstrings and ensnares you with the scope of its ambition.